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Many people invest in real estate in order to create passive income and eventually become wealthy enough to not have to work a regular job for the rest of their lives.I want to pose a philosophical question. Is there ...
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Hello everyone, I have been scavenging through the forums lately looking for some advice on this and listening to a Podcast right now. Question is how does an eager hopefully soon to be investor get into the game wit...
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I am fairly new to the concept of buying/selling mortgage notes and I have been reading about it. From what I understand (to put in simplistic terms):
Lenders (could be banks, financial institutions, private people) ...
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After 8 months of research and preparation, I finally closed on my first deal - a SFH in a decent neighborhood. I’ve been waiting and working hard to achieve this dream since I graduated from college 10 years ago. Thi...
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I’m looking to begin my real estate investing with purchasing properties and lease optioning them out. It will have to be out of state due to me living in SoCal. I’m mostly concerned with my out of state situation, ha...
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I got this email today in my business email address which I only advertise in my sig here at BP:
From Melinda Mendez
Your website looks great, but it's missing out on a lot of internet traffic due to
where you rank ...
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Hey all,Let's consider a scenario: An older family member is moving to town and buying a house. This person will put a significant portion (50%) down, so there will be plenty of equity in the property. This family mem...
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Looking to figure out which states are best to purchase homes in as an investment property? Also, how do you know when you’re getting a great deal on the property?
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BP community,I've got kind of an odd ball question I wanted to get some opinions on. My wife and I recently moved from CA to IN (work related move). During the move process we decided to build a new house in IN. As yo...
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If I want to know how a REIT or any mutual fund in any sector has performed relative to the market and relative to its peers in the last 1 year, 3 years, 5 years or 10 years, I can find this out through a rating servi...